Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan, 1987.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Olivia Manning | |
Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | SB
, recently re-established in London, met there May Sinclair
, William Gerhardi
, and Rose Macaulay
. Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan, 1987. 239 |
Friends, Associates | Theodora Benson | TB
enjoyed a wide circle of friends both literary and non-literary. The former included Rose Macaulay
and Howard Spring
. She met her future collaborator Betty Askwith
(daughter of an old friend of her mother's)... |
Friends, Associates | Olivia Manning | OM
's friends included a number of fellow-writers: William Gerhardi
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
(whom she had first met before the war, at a party given by Rose Macaulay
, and whose work she deeply admired),... |
Literary responses | Olivia Manning | Some initial reviews were critical, but OM
was delighted when Elizabeth Bowen
referred to her masculine impersonality. qtd. in Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 143 |
Textual Features | Dorothy Whipple | DW
also presents, with deliberate naivete, the ups and downs of her own career: her high points and failures of confidence. As her confidence grows, her narrative embraces funny anecdotes, moving moments, penetrating insights, and... |
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